Emergency hub cap



March 1o'. 1925.

S. H. VINNER EMERGENCY HUB QAP Fiied oct. 4, .192s

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Stumm,

20 to provide an improved device which may Patented Mar. 10, 1925.

SAM H. vlmvnn, or BiLriNGsivroNTANA..

EMERGENCY HUB' car.

Application led October 4, 1923. Serial No. 666,550..

T all whom t may concern.'

Be it known that. I, SAM H. VrNNnx, a citizen of the United States, residing at Billings, in' the county of Yellowstone and.

State of Montana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Emergency Hub Caps, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to automobiles, and other vehicles, and has special reference to a combined emergency hub cap and wheel puller.

In certain makes of automobiles, it yis not unusual for the wheel hub casting to break away from the flange with whichit is provided, and which serves to secure the spokes so thatl the body of the wheel revolves with its hub. I/Vhen this occurs, the wheel will no longer revolve with the axle.

One important object of the invention is be screwed on the outer end of the hub in place of the usual hub cap and which, when so positioned, will serve to engage the wheel spokes and thereby drive the wheel just the same as though there had been no fracture of the hub.

- It is also common in automobiles to remove, at times, the' wheels from the axles and it is usual to employ what is commonly known as a wheel puller for this purpose.

A second important object of the inven-V tion is to combine with this emergency -hub cap means whereby the wheel may be pulled od the axle.

With the above and other objects in view as will be hereinafter apparent, the inven-v tion consists in general of certain novel details of construction and combinations of parts hereinafter more fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and specifically claimed.

In the accompanying drawings like characters of reference indicate like parts in the i l ing attits open end internal threads 11.v At

diametrically opposite points on this body there are providedslits 12, which extend longitudinally of the body from the threaded end towardtheclosed or outer end. At each side of each of these slits is a lug 13 so positionedthat these lugs arev arranged, in pairs with the lugs of each ppair on opposite sides of the respective slits. Extend-v ing through these lugs Vare the clamping bolts 14 which serve to bring the sides of the slits closer together when they are screwed up, and pivotally mounted on each` of these bolts is a bent arm 15 having its end Vangularly vdisposed so that the free ends may project between the spokes S of the wheel 4and engage the same Vwhenthe body is Vscrewed on the'hub H. Screwed through i the closedend of the body is' a set` screw 16, .i

the axle A when the device is positioned to y pull the wheel'.

In the event of the hub being broken, the ordinary hub cap is removed, and this cap is screwed in its place. The arms 15 are. swung between the spokes S and the bolts 14 screwed up. This action notronly yclamps the arms in position, but also clamps the: body 10 iirmly on the hub I-I so that backj ward revolution of the axle A will not cause unscrewing of the hubl cap, but will cause'. the arms 15 to rotate the wheels. bolts 14 serve a double function. p

'When the device is to be used as a wheel puller, the body 10 is simply screwed, on the hub, and the set screw 16V screwed inwardly in the manner common in such devices, this resulting in the wheel being pulled off of the axle A,

There has thus been provided a simple and eflicient device of the kind described and for the purpose specified.Y Y'

- It is obvious that minor changes may be made in the form and construction ofthe Vinvention without in any way` departing from the material spirit thereof.` It is` not, therefore, desired to confine the invention to the kexact form 1 herein shown and described, but it is wished to include all lsuch as properly come within the scope claimed.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new, is: y

An emergency hub cap including a hollow body member internallythreaded .to ...Screw y Thus the p 2 f4 s l Y 1,529,563

on a vehicle huh and provided with slits in screw threaded through the outell end of 10 its sidewalls extendinglongitudinally vof saidhodyfeentally thereof.xl u the-bodyffro 'the-'threaded rend; pairs of VIn@testimony whereoflaxmy signature lugs extending outwardly from sadthreadin presence of two witnesses.

- ed end the luOs of each palybengdisposed on opposte sides of a resp'e'tfe"s1t',"o1ah1p V SAM H' VINNER' bolts passing through said lugs'i spoke-env Y Ttnesges:

gagng arms pvoted between respective HARRY K. COHEN, pairs of lugs on sadohrmpbolts; andfa, seti'I I-I-:l'JRf-*COHNEI 

